Latest Contributions by MichaelJenkins

Yes, the F5 Virtual Server has the DNS C-Name assigned to its IP and a CA SSL applied to it.  The web adaptor server runs IIS and can use a domain cert.  The F5 VS is the only thing end users connect to.   It proxies traffic to a 'pool' which, in this case, only has one server in it and that is the web adaptor server. ... View more

Agreeing with the first comment on both points - shared accounts are to be discouraged, but to reset the password a user must receive an email with a link to rest the password, so simply setting the email for the account to your own will prevent other users from changing the password. ArcGIS Enterprise comes with unlimited viewer accounts, and it is preferred to have users use their own accounts.   ... View more

Have you considered using Hosted feature layer views for each of them?  You would still only have one hosted feature layer, but you could add the views to the web map instead of the source feature layer and then control access via sharing.  Create hosted feature layer views—ArcGIS Online Help | Documentation     ... View more

As for REST services, it is just the standard protocol that web applications use to access data.  Whenever you publish a feature layer item in ArcGIS Online, you are creating a REST service.   ArcGIS creates them for you. When you create an ArcGIS Enterprise site, you are hosting a mini-version of ArcGIS Online on your own equipment.  The main advantage of having ArcGIS Enterprise is that it can connect to resources you have on-prem.   Resources like imagery that you have on a file system, File Geodatabases, and most importantly Enterprise Geodatabases (SQL Server, Oracle, etc). There used to be a lot of other things you could only do in ArcGIS Enterprise and not in ArcGIS Online, like hosting imagery services, using a GeoEvent Server and more.   Esri has made many of those features available Online for an additional fee.  You can upload File Geodatabases to AGO, but you cannot connect to an EGDB from ArcGIS Online, so that is one of the key advanatages. There are also aspects of security that can be considered, but that is a pretty big topic on its own.  The main pioint there would be you can put ArcGIS Enterprise behind a firewall for additional security.   ... View more

Looking forward to these updates! ... View more

Yes, perfectly OK if the service is already deleted.    Delete from one level above what you ahve highlighted i.e. the folder that is named with the service name. ... View more

If you have an active pool of users who are currently using ArcGIS built-in accounts, you will have to migrate all their content and group memberships to their new accounts.    If you implement SSO, it will require new ArcGIS Enterprise accounts for your users.   You cannot convert an existing built-in account to an SSO account.  That is the part that you should plan for ahead of time.  You will also have to train / inform you users to click on the correct login button to use SSO rather than selecting the "ArcGIS login" and filling out a username and password. Just enabling SSO is quick and easy, and you can run both SSO and built-in accounts at the same time, so nothing needs to break when you enable SSO.       ... View more

I got a low disk space warning not too long ago and found over 150,000 temp files from ArcGIS Server going back over 3 years.   I was able to delete many of them and freed up about 100GB of space on the C drive. This article was helpful:  How To: Delete ArcGIS Enterprise Temporary Files (esri.com) It has info that applies to stand-along ArcGIS Server as well as other Enterprise components. For example, it shows this as one location where temp files can accumulate. C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp Where <user> is the account that runs the ArcGIS Server service. Also very helpful in these situations is a little program called "TreeSize Free" which you can install on your server and run it to see the names and size of all the folders in your drive tree, including hidden folders that you don't normally see in File Explorer.   Another time we got a low disk space warning I used TreeSize Free and found another user had downloaded dozens of GBs of installation files into their "Downloads" folder, which is in their user profile directory and not one I would normally see or think to check.     ... View more